Number of working hours- 9-5
Saturday 9-1
Probation- probation is of three months, within which employee performance is regularly monitored and evaluated. Incase the employee is not upto the mark he is not recommended for confirmation.
In some cases task assigned to the employee is of more than three months only then probation oeriod may be extended.
After probation period the only difference is that the employee becomes eligible for gratuity
We don’t believe in working over time, employees that are efficient they don’t work overtime. Only for security people an extra premium is paid for overtime, factory workers work on a piece rate base.
Annual leave is based on calendar days.
Yes we have annual leave encashment policy, we encash 14 leaves annually.
We don’t carry forward annual leaves.
No we do not provide vacation bonus to our employees.
We do not expect any staff reductions in the year 2013, actually we want to increase our staff in order to compete with bata and servis. Hush puppies has approximately only 1.5 percent share of the footwear market, which we want to increase as we are achieving 25 % growth in sales quarterly on our stores.
No we don’t have a involuntary separation policy, as we do not fire employees, we aim to screen out incompatible employees during the probation stage.
No we don’t have a severance pay policy.
No there is no early retirement policy at firhaj, the retirement age is 60.
We do not provide provident fund
We provide gratuity. Any employee who has worked for a year is eligible for gratuity, 1 basic pay after a year, the next after six months and then further 1 salary on a yearly basis. Components included are every thing except for fuel and mobile allowance.

We have not yet provided medical facility, we are developing a medical policy that would include children and spouse, parents will not be included. We provide zakat to needy employees. Approximately 1 crore rupees yearly.
No we have not opted for group life insurance as yet.
Yes we do provide vehicle benefits to employees in the manager level or above.
Company covers the vehicle maintainence cost.
There is no specific eligibility criteria, car is provided according to the nature of the job for employees other than managerial level.
No buy back policy for cars.
Yes we conduct a need analysis on a yearly basis. Both in house training and training programs are also out sourced.
Yes we do subsidize for education needs of our employees, currently 4 employees are doing executive mba from local universities.
We don’t have a meal allowance policy, we provide meal in office on subsidized rates. 600 monthly is charged.
Mobile is provided to all employees at the managerial or upper level, other then that we provide mobile facility if job nature requires it.
No we don’t have a discount policy on our products, we usually get signed by our directors if requested for discount. Discount varies from 30 – 50 percent.
We don’t categorize long serving employees separately. Actually they are also evaluated the same way as other employees.
Usually after 12 months but some top performers are eligible for salary review before 12 months. Based on key performance indicators some employees are given increments before 12 months.
The hr manager fahad was given a raise of 20 thousand after six months of sevice with the firm.